Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
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Vectors is an international online journal produced by the University of Southern California's Institute for Multimedia Literacy. Launched in March 2005, the journal's current issue is its fifth, titled "Difference". Through all of the issues, Vectors has featured over thirty scholarly new media projects. The next issue, "Memory", is due to be published Fall 2009.
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[edit] About the journal
The journal publishes two new issues per year. Each issue features projects created by teams of fellows from a range of disciplines working together with technologists, creative directors and other scholars.
Vectors' mission is to publish material that can't be published in print utilizing cutting-edge tools and work processes. As the journal's about page describes,
This investigation at the intersection of technology and culture is not simply thematic. Rather, Vectors is realized in multimedia, melding form and content to enact a second-order examination of the mediation of everyday life. Using a peer-reviewed format and under the guidance of an international board, Vectors features submissions and specially-commissioned works composed of moving- and still-images; voice, music, and sound; computational and interactive structures; social software; and much more. [1]
Projects included in Vectors investigate diverse topics including evidence, indigenous communities, women's prisons, land use, war, and worker's rights. Many projects are produced by a team that includes a Vectors staff member. Other's are created externally and chosen for inclusion.
[edit] Editorial staff
The journal has a dedicated editorial staff [2] to provide editorial oversight and vision, collaborate with fellows, and create discourse and tools based on research during the project creation process. The present staff is: Tara McPherson (Editor), Steve Anderson (Editor), Erik Loyer (Creative Director), and Craig Dietrich (User Interface Engineer). Also on the staff of Vectors for specific projects is Alessandro Ceglia.
[edit] External links
- Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular http://www.vectorsjournal.org
- Vectors Journal: Issues & Projects Archive
[edit] List of issues and projects
The Vectors Journal has published over thirty projects since March, 2005. Below is a list of the projects and the members of the collaboration team.
| Title | Primary team members | Project page |
|---|---|---|
| Issue 1 (Evidence): http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=1 | ||
| In The News | Michal Migurski & Eric Rodenbeck | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=50 |
| Investigating Imaginary Evidence | Mary Agnes Krell | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=2 |
| Jenny Holzer at the Neue Nationalgalerie | Ehren Fordyce & Gwen Allen, Alessandro Ceglia | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=4 |
| Narrating Bits: Encounters between Humans and Intelligent Machines | N. Katherine Hayles, Eric Rodenbeck & Erik Loyer & Tomas Apodaca & Michal Migurski | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=6 |
| Stolen Time Archive | Alice Gambrell, Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=10 |
| The Menorah of Fang Bang Lu | Andrew Jakubowicz, Tatiana Pentes | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=40 |
| The Unmaking of Markets: A Composite Visual History | Rebecca Jean Emigh, Erik Loyer | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=5 |
| Virtual Vaudeville | David Saltz | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=39 |
| Issue 2 (Mobility): http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=2 | ||
| Cultivating Pasadena: From Roses to Redevelopment | The Labyrinth Project with Marsha Kinder, Kevin Tanaka, Rosemary Comella, Karen Voss | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=55 |
| Hypermedia Berlin: Cultural History in the Age of New Media, or "Is There a Text in this Class?" | Todd Presner with Zoe Borovsky, Eugene Horikawa, Brian Lin, Shawn Higgins | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=60 |
| Mobile Figures | David Lloyd & Erik Loyer | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=54 |
| PlaceStorming: v. 3.0 | Jane McGonigal & Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=8 |
| The Guantanamobile Project | Lisa Lynch, Elena Razlogova & Eric Rodenbeck | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=3 |
| Wegzeit: The Geometry of Relative Distance | Dietmar Offenhuber with Dietmar Offenhuber | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=64 |
| WiFi.Bedouin: This is not the web without wires.. | Julian Bleecker & Erik Loyer | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=12 |
| Issue 3 (Ephemera): http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=3 | ||
| Cast-offs from the Golden Age | Melanie Swalwell & Erik Loyer | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=66 |
| Crowds | Jeffrey T. Schnapp | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=74 |
| Digital Dynamics Across Cultures | Kim Christen, Chris Cooney & Alessandro Ceglia with Craig Dietrich | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=67 |
| Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: Preserving the Stories of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma | Center for History and New Media | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=75 |
| Objects of Media Studies | Amelie Hastie & Raegan Kelly with Amelie Hastie, Raiford Guins, Anna Scott, Mary Desjardins, Kate Mondloch, Lisa Parks, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Laura Kang | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=65 |
| Panorama Ephemera | Rick Prelinger & Raegan Kelly with Craig Dietrich | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=58 |
| Slavery's Ephemera: The Contemporary Life of the Antebellum Plantation | Judith Jackson Fossett & Erik Loyer | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=56 |
| The Agrippa Files: An Online Archive of Agrippa (a book of the dead) | Agrippa Files Editorial Team | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=77 |
| Issue 4 (Perception): http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=4 | ||
| Dead Reckoning: Aerial Perception and the Social Construction of Targets | Caren Kaplan & Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=11 |
| Enfolding and Unfolding: An Aesthetics for the Information Age | Laura Marks & Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=72 |
| Malperception | Perry Hoberman, Donald Hoffman with Perry Hoberman | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=71 |
| Public Secrets | Sharon Daniel & Erik Loyer | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=57 |
| The Virtual Window Interactive | Anne Friedberg & Erik Loyer | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=79 |
| Tracking Theory: The Synthetic Philosophy of The Glance | Eric Faden | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=78 |
| Unmarked Planes and Hidden Geographies | Trevor Paglen & Craig Dietrich, Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=59 |
| Issue 5 (Difference): http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=5 | ||
| Blue Velvet: Re-dressing New Orleans in Katrina's wake | David Theo Goldberg, Stefka Hristova & Erik Loyer | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=82 |
| Deliberative Democracy and Difference | Mark Kann & Alessandro Ceglia | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=81 |
| Killer Entertainments | Jennifer Terry & Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=86 |
| Nation on the Move | Minoo Moallem & Erik Loyer | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=83 |
| Programmed Visions | Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=85 |
| The RED Project: Rendering Electromagnetic Distributions | Christian Sandvig | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=87 |
| ThoughtMesh: Tag your writing. Join the conversation. | Jon Ippolito, Craig Dietrich with John Bell | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=84 |
[edit] Upcoming issue
The next issue of Vectors will be titled "Memory". Due to be published Fall 2009, fellows include Mark Hansen, Greg J. Smith, Elizabeth Povinelli, Jon Winet, and Steve Anderson.
[edit] References
- Vectors Journal About Page http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=2|1
- Vectors Journal Editorial Staff Page http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=3|3
